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ATLANTA - April 13, 2016 - PRLog -- DFSgold Announces DFSgold Player of the Year Presented by Jaybird

Atlanta, Ga. - DFSgold today announced a partnership with premium active lifestyle brand Jaybird as sponsor of the newly launched DFSgold Player of the Year. The DFSgold Player of the Year presented by Jaybird will recognize the year's top daily fantasy sports player.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Associated Press) - Fantasy sports could continue in Missouri without facing gambling regulations under a bill advancing in the state Legislature.

House members voted 104-38 Thursday to pass the measure and send it to the Senate.

Daily fantasy sports sites would need to pay an annual $5,000 registration fee and would face some additional restrictions, including prohibiting employees from playing. Only those 18 and older could participate.

The fantasy sports betting market has exploded. As we have seen from the massive expansion and rise of Fanduel and Draftkings. We have also started to see a contraction as more and more states are clamping down and questioning their legality as some try to frame it as “Daily Wagering” and others are trying to frame it as a “Game of skill”.

Attorney General Herbert Slatery wrote a formal opinion that said fantasy sports betting violates state laws against gambling because participants pay an entry fee to win a prize and a portion of that fee goes to a pot where wins are paid out.

Over the last decade, fantasy sport games have been on the rise. In fact, there are now fantasy games available for most sports, including football, soccer and basketball. Some of these games are daily, some are weekly and some are yearly but they all have one thing in common - competitive play. Everybody wants to win fantasy sports games. And this is one of the key similarities between fantasy sport games and general slots that you find in a casino - everybody wants to win.

NEW YORK —(Associated Press) - Smaller companies in the exploding fantasy sports industry say they could be shut out of doing business in some states by legislation that is actually intended to recognize the games’ legality.

Dallas point guard Deron Williams and power forward Dirk Nowitzki are expected to be out both Sunday and Monday, leading to a boost in value for a number of players whose salaries will likely stay relatively stable.

J.J. Barea is the obvious player to target first in these games, having just scored 21 points with five triples the other night against Golden State. More importantly Barea is priced at $4.3K. He was going up against a fantasy-friendly Kings team Sunday.

Fans of fantasy sports betting can hardly have missed the biggest news to rock the industry in a long time: the legislations proposed by at least 30 US states to regulate -or in some cases place an outright ban on- the activity.

DFS911.com has your NBA Daily Fantasy Hot Players breakdown. Who are the current top DFS players in the NBA? Prices used are from DraftKings.

Paul George – Indiana Pacers - $8600 - Over his last ten games, George is averaging an impressive 43 fantasy points in 36 minutes per game. Play him versus teams that rank poor against small forwards. This included Monday night’s game versus the 76ers where he didn’t quite reach that 43 fantasy points average.

HOUSTON — (Reuters) - Texas reached a deal with fantasy sports firm FanDuel by which it will halt paid operations on May 2, the state’s top prosecutor said on Friday, two months after saying such online operations are illegal gambling.

FanDuel will continue to operate its free games in Texas, but will stop accepting paid contest entries on May 2. In return, the prosecutor agreed not to take any legal action against FanDuel over its contests.

BOSTON — (Associated Press) - The daily fantasy sports debate has spilled into state capitols nationwide, with nearly 30 legislatures considering proposals to regulate, ban or affirm the games played by millions of Americans.

The flurry of recent legislative activity represents a sea change for the industry, which for years was content to operate largely unregulated.

Illinois State Rep. Michael Zalewski is sponsoring legislation in the state that would exempt fantasy sports from state gambling laws according to Northern Public Radio. It would also characterize Daily Fantasy Sports as a game of skill.

He said it would help small businesses like SideLeague, a fantasy sports company based in Illinois that current doesn't offer games in the state right now.

FanDuel CFO Matt King told PBS’ “Frontlines” that his company and Daily Fantasy Sports is not gambling but rather entertainment. He also upset some in the poker community by claiming that poker is not a game of skill but is indeed a form of gambling.